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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Luke Jones speaks to; Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Prison Reform, former prisoner Andrew Morris and the national chairman of the Prison Officers' Association Mark Fairhurst on how prisons have been during the pandemic.
PLUS: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester give their take on the day's news.
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| 1:44.6 | I'm not surely sounding a little bit unwell, it's not him, it's me Luke Jones, I'm sitting in for |
| 1:48.4 | Matt all this week on Times Radio. Today we're going to be talking about prisons. The pandemic has |
| 1:54.1 | shown up a lot of problems in the prison system, some things that were already there, but maybe we |
| 1:59.2 | just weren't paying attention, but of course the pandemic has heightened some of them, we're going to |
| 2:03.1 | be hearing from somebody who is a prison officer, someone who used to be in prison and now works |
| 2:08.0 | dealing with complaints by prisoners and also at the Howard Lee for reform, we're going to be here |
| 2:12.6 | as well. First though, we're going to check in with today's columnist, Liberacea, Purvis and Sylvester. |
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